公开(公告)号：US20240252997A1

公开(公告)日：2024-08-01

申请号：US18603768

申请日：2024-03-13

申请人： TECAN TRADING AG

发明人： Dominic ERB ,  Philipp RIEDEL ,  Christian STREBEL ,  Gero FEHR ,  Klaus LUN ,  Christoph KARTHAUS

IPC分类号： B01F31/23 ,  B01F31/20 ,  B01F35/221 ,  B01F35/32 ,  B01F101/23

CPC分类号： B01F31/23 ,  B01F31/201 ,  B01F35/221422 ,  B01F35/325 ,  B01F2101/23

摘要： A mixing apparatus containing a drive unit having a drive and a shaft that is pivotable about a pivot axis and is operatively connected to the drive. A pivotable receptacle is arranged on the shaft, where the pivot axis is oriented essentially horizontally, and the pivotable receptacle has a base plate and at least one retainer spaced therefrom, and the pivotable receptacle is configured in such a way that holders for containers can be inserted between the base plate and the at least one retainer in the direction of the pivot axis.

公开(公告)号：US12048936B2

公开(公告)日：2024-07-30

申请号：US16624146

申请日：2018-05-16

申请人： TECAN TRADING AG

发明人： Markus Spiss ,  Fred Schinzel ,  Adrian Sager ,  Markus Wolf

IPC分类号： B04B5/04 ,  B01L3/00 ,  B04B13/00

CPC分类号： B04B5/0421 ,  B01L3/502 ,  B04B13/00

摘要： A centrifugal processing unit for directing the movement of substances within a sample processing cartridge having a rotor for receiving the sample processing cartridge, a rotor drive to create a centrifugal force, the centrifugal processing unit having a pivot accommodation and a fix accommodation for receiving the sample processing cartridge that are arranged on the rotor, where each pivot accommodation being adapted to allow a free pivoting motion of the received sample processing cartridge about a respective pivot axis, and each pivot axis being orthogonal to the rotor axis to the respective force vector of the centrifugal force.

公开(公告)号：US20240201209A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18543685

申请日：2023-12-18

申请人： Tecan Trading AG

发明人： Michael Keller ,  Christina Bauer ,  Guido Schuster ,  Simon Walser

IPC分类号： G01N35/00

CPC分类号： G01N35/00623 ,  G01N2035/00653

摘要： A method for classifying a specific pipetting procedure of a laboratory automation device comprises: determining a plurality of pressure curves of a plurality of pipetting procedures, which are equivalent to the specific pipetting procedure; determining a median curve from the plurality of pressure curves, wherein for each time point of the median curve, a median value of the values of the plurality of pressure curves at this time point is calculated; determining a median curve range containing the median curve; controlling the laboratory automation device to perform the specific pipetting procedure and measuring a specific pressure curve during the specific pipetting procedure; determining a deviation value of the specific pressure curve with respect to the median curve range, wherein the deviation value is indicative of the specific pressure curve leaving the median range; and classifying the specific pipetting procedure as erroneous, when the deviation value is greater than a threshold.

公开(公告)号：US11951482B2

公开(公告)日：2024-04-09

申请号：US17559362

申请日：2021-12-22

申请人： TECAN TRADING AG

发明人： Patrick Kinney ,  Tiffany Ding (Lay) ,  Manjeet Dhindsa ,  Daniel Tran ,  Jennifer Ji ,  Sujata Iyer ,  Tin Ngo

IPC分类号： B01L3/00

CPC分类号： B01L3/502792 ,  B01L2400/0427

摘要： A cartridge, in particular a disposable cartridge, for use in an electrowetting sample processing system. The cartridge has a liquid input port for introducing an input liquid into an internal gap of the cartridge, the input liquid providing for at least one droplet, directly or via a liquid separation process within the internal gap, and the internal gap having at least one hydrophobic surface, at least one processing zone for processing samples located in the processing zone, and a delivery zone for delivering the at least one droplet from the liquid input port to the at least one processing zone. The delivery zone is configured to provide a repeating pattern of interacting electrowetting force for simultaneously transporting the at least one droplet within the delivery zone.

公开(公告)号：USD1021135S1

公开(公告)日：2024-04-02

申请号：US29840572

申请日：2022-05-31

申请人： Tecan Trading AG

设计人： Sven Pflumm ,  Jan Beeli

摘要： FIG. 1 is a top perspective view of a tray for pipetting tips according to our new design;
FIG. 2 is a bottom perspective view thereof;
FIG. 3 is another bottom perspective view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a top plan view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a bottom plan view thereof;
FIG. 6 is a left side elevation view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a right side elevation view thereof;
FIG. 8 is a rear elevation view thereof; and,
FIG. 9 is a front elevation view thereof.

公开(公告)号：US11940457B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-26

申请号：US17524217

申请日：2021-11-11

申请人： TECAN TRADING AG

发明人： Thomas Geiges

IPC分类号： B01L3/02 ,  B01L9/00 ,  B25J18/00 ,  G01N35/00 ,  G01N35/10 ,  H01H1/40 ,  H01H3/16

CPC分类号： G01N35/0099 ,  B01L3/021 ,  B01L9/54 ,  B25J18/00 ,  B01L2300/0645 ,  B01L2300/0663 ,  B01L2300/12 ,  B01L2300/123 ,  B01L2300/126 ,  G01N2035/1013

摘要： A robotic arm of an automated pipetting system has a pipetting tip adapter and a slide switch to detect the presence of pipetting tips on the pipetting tip adapter is disclosed. The slide switch has first support member and second support member configured to slide relative to one another between first and second positions along a movement axis, an electrically conducting contact pad arranged on the first support member, an electrically conducting terminal physically attached to second support member in physical contact with the contact pad when support members are in first position, where the terminal is a first resilient wiping member expanding along the movement axis, first wiping member is not in physical contact with the contact pad when support members are in second position, and an electric current can flow between first wiping member and the contact pad when support members are in first position.

公开(公告)号：US11878304B2

公开(公告)日：2024-01-23

申请号：US17558764

申请日：2021-12-22

申请人： TECAN TRADING AG

发明人： Marina Knoppke ,  Sven Pflumm ,  Claudio Bohli

IPC分类号： B01L9/00

CPC分类号： B01L9/543 ,  B01L2200/08 ,  B01L2200/12 ,  B01L2300/12

摘要： A receiving frame for a support plate for pipette tips that is formed from two opposing longitudinal walls and two opposing transverse walls, each has an upper side and a lower side and laterally enclose an interior space is disclosed. The upper sides of the longitudinal walls and transverse walls together form a circumferential support surface on which a support plate for pipette tips can be reversibly placed. The receiving frame has a footprint on the lower side of the longitudinal walls and the transverse walls.

公开(公告)号：US11819845B2

公开(公告)日：2023-11-21

申请号：US17469656

申请日：2021-09-08

申请人： TECAN TRADING AG

发明人： Thomas Perroud ,  Dan Tran ,  Daniel Hoffmeyer ,  Tiffany Lay ,  Manjeet Dhindsa

IPC分类号： B01L3/00

CPC分类号： B01L3/502715 ,  B01L3/508 ,  B01L3/50273 ,  B01L3/502761 ,  B01L3/502792 ,  B01L2200/025 ,  B01L2200/0668 ,  B01L2300/0816 ,  B01L2300/123 ,  B01L2400/043 ,  B01L2400/0427

摘要： A digital microfluidics system with electrodes attached to a substrate and covered by a hydrophobic surface and a control unit for manipulating liquid droplets by electrowetting, providing in close proximity to electrodes a magnetic conduit for directing a magnetic field of a backing magnet to the first hydrophobic surface, providing on the hydrophobic surface a liquid droplet that has magnetically responsive beads moving by electrowetting the liquid droplet with the magnetically responsive beads until a part of which is placed atop of the magnetic conduit, actuating the backing magnet of the magnetic conduit and attracting/concentrating magnetically responsive beads while actuating the backing magnet, moving by electrowetting the liquid droplet with decreased number of magnetically responsive beads away from the specific magnetic conduit. Also disclosed are a method for suspending magnetically responsive beads in liquid portions or droplets in digital microfluidics and a disposable cartridge to carry out the methods.

公开(公告)号：USD1002866S1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-24

申请号：US29805771

申请日：2021-08-30

申请人： Tecan Trading AG

设计人： Marina Knoppke ,  Sven Pflumm ,  Claudio Bohli

摘要： FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a pipetting tip box according to a First Embodiment of our new design;
FIG. 2 is a front view thereof;
FIG. 3 is a rear view thereof;
FIG. 4 is a left-side view thereof;
FIG. 5 is a right-side view thereof;
FIG. 6 is an enlarged top plan view thereof;
FIG. 7 is a bottom plan view thereof;
FIG. 8 is a perspective view of a pipetting tip box according to a Second Embodiment our new design;
FIG. 9 is a front view thereof;
FIG. 10 is a rear view thereof;
FIG. 11 is a left-side view thereof;
FIG. 12 is a right-side view thereof;
FIG. 13 is an enlarged top plan view thereof; and,
FIG. 14 is a bottom plan view thereof.
The broken lines depict portions of the pipetting tip box that form no part of the claimed design.

公开(公告)号：US11666914B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-06

申请号：US15975283

申请日：2018-05-09

申请人： TECAN TRADING AG

发明人： Patrick Kinney ,  Sujata Iyer ,  Tin Ngo ,  Jennifer Ji ,  Marta Matvienko ,  Tiffany Ding (Lay)

IPC分类号： B01L3/00

CPC分类号： B01L3/502761 ,  B01L3/502792 ,  B01L2300/123 ,  B01L2400/0427

摘要： A cartridge, in particular a disposable cartridge, for use in an electrowetting sample processing system. The cartridge contains an internal gap with at least one hydrophobic surface for enabling an electrowetting induced movement of a microfluidic droplet that has magnetic beads and further has a bead accumulation zone, into which the microfluidic droplet is transferable by electrowetting force and the magnetic beads are exposable to a magnetic force of a bead manipulation magnet. The internal gap has a bead extraction opening adjacent to the bead accumulation zone. The bead extraction opening provides a passage from the gap to an exterior space of the cartridge and is configured to removably receive the bead manipulation magnet for enabling an extraction of the magnetic beads from the microfluidic droplet by a removal of the bead manipulation magnet.